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Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain's acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through these, working people subscribed small, regular amounts to their local hospitals, in return for which they were eligible for free hospital care. Mutualism and health care evaluates the extent to which the schemes were successful in achieving comprehensive coverage of the population, funding hospital

Mutualism. --- Health insurance. --- Health insurance --- Health plans, Prepaid --- Insurance, Health --- Medical care, Prepaid --- Medical insurance --- Prepaid health plans --- Prepaid medical care --- Sickness insurance --- Insurance --- Ambulance service --- Health care reform --- Home care services --- Hospitals --- Medically uninsured persons --- Surgical clinics --- Mutuality --- Cooperation --- Economics --- Socialism --- History --- Prospective payment --- Emergency services --- Outpatient services --- Rehabilitation services --- Great Britain. --- National health services --- Medicine, State --- National Health Service (Great Britain) --- acute hospital services. --- free hospital care. --- health care governance. --- health cash plans. --- hospital contributory schemes. --- hospital funding. --- mass contribution. --- mutualism. --- post-war NHS. --- voluntary hospitals.